LIBROS DEL AUTOR: matthew coniam

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  • The Annotated Abbott and Costello
    Matthew Coniam / Nick Santa Maria
    Abbott and Costello were the most popular comedians of the 1940s, with burlesque-inspired routines that enthralled audiences on both radio and television. Oddly, their films have not received the same level of attention from critics and writers as those of other comedy teams. This book is a scene-by-scene, film-by-film guide to their movies, making a compelling case for th...
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    74,05 €

  • MOVIES ARE A CONSPIRACY Selected Essays on Cinema
    Matthew Coniam
    Matthew Coniam, author of ’The Annotated Marx Brothers’ and ’Egyptomania Goes To The Movies’ would dearly love to dedicate his energies to the higher things in life. But alas, cinephilia infected him at a young age and, as yet, there is no cure.In this collection of essays on movies and moviemakers culled from several years’ worth of blog posts, magazine articles and book chapt...
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    22,92 €

  • Egyptomania Goes to the Movies
    Matthew Coniam
    'Egyptomania,' the West’s obsession with the strange and magnificent world of Ancient Egypt, has for centuries been reflected in architecture, literature and the performing arts. But the discovery of Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922, by a sensation-hungry world newly united by mass media, created a wave of fascination unlike anything before. They called it 'Tutmania' and its influ...
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    43,86 €

  • That’s Me, Groucho!
    Matthew Coniam
    Groucho Marx’s career as a solo performer began long before the Marx Brothers and lasted almost until the end of his life, with a series of controversial sold-out concerts in his eighties. In between came several films, numerous television and radio appearances, theater performances, dramatic acting and writing and his smash hit radio and TV quiz show You Bet Your Life (194...
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    43,80 €

  • The Annotated Marx Brothers
    Matthew Coniam
    Have you ever watched a Marx Brothers film and wondered what 'habeas Irish rose' is? What is the trial of Mary Dugan with sound? What is a college widow? When exactly did Don Ameche invent the telephone? Their films are full of such in-jokes and obscure theatrical, literary and topical references that can baffle modern audiences. In this viewer’s guide to the Marx Brothers...
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    51,63 €